Honestly Abe

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Had enough of Abraham Lincoln? Of course you haven’t. In the bicentennial year of his birth, Lincoln is more interesting than ever.

There are two Lincolns — the one we studied in school, the one full of myths that we fashioned into the image we wanted him to be, and the other, the real Lincoln, warts and all.

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